jdpigeon

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by jdpigeon 8y ago
Yes, very low bandwidth. Active BCIs based on EEG are extremely unreliable and/or exhausting to use
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by jdpigeon 8y ago
To leave the academic track and start working full time on a mobile app at the end of my Masters. Nearly everything notable that's come my way career-wise stemmed from people noticing that little app that I spent less than 6 months wor
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by jdpigeon 8y ago
Wow, Williamsburg was bleak back then.
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by jdpigeon 8y ago
Absolutely. One can imagine a more level playing field when things like attractive websites, SEO, and efficient internal data management are more available to small businesses.
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by jdpigeon 8y ago
Just to chime in a bit on that point of never coming across captivating tracks that you haven't heard before. I went to a nightclub a little while ago where one of my favorite DJs (Project Pablo) was spinning. I'd worn out every o
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by jdpigeon 8y ago
As much as 'coconut oil cures Alzheimer's' sounds like quackery, there is some pretty interesting evidence towards metabolic dysfunction being a major contributor to the disease. It even got mentioned in the article.
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by jdpigeon 8y ago
It's absurd how easy it is to take ambien then forget that you took it 15 minutes later and redose. Fortunately, I think most Americans manage to stay in their houses when they do it. I wonder how many people are carrying around deeply
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by jdpigeon 8y ago
I wrote an assignment in my undergrad neuropsychopharmacology course that the hallucinations and abnormal behaviour ambien causes might be due to a similar mechanism of action as ketamine. I was almost entirely going off my own recreational
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by jdpigeon 8y ago
I'd love to be able to do all this, but it sounds like a little bit too much work. Aren't the gains of all that process (e.g. code reviews, etc) the fact that it helps multiple minds get on the same page? With one person isn'
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by jdpigeon 8y ago
This sounds really good on the face of it but something in me is suspicious that this approach won't lead to even worse confusion in a real project. Maybe I've just been working in a certain way for too long and have gotten stuck
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by jdpigeon 8y ago
That's an amazing talk, thank you
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by jdpigeon 8y ago
I love these multi-media style articles. Didn't anyone else feel completely transported when they watched the yuca getting cooked and saw that woman's tears? Certainly it's not the right choice for every story, but I think it
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by jdpigeon 8y ago
Me too. Maybe it's cause I've only been developing for a year, but I'm not sure what a 'native object' is and there don't seem to be any good definitions
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by jdpigeon 8y ago
I wouldn't trust anything from that website. That scientific journal sounds sketchy, too
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by jdpigeon 8y ago
I don't know, man. You cherry-pick some examples of government inefficiency, but our society benefits greatly from all the rules that the government enforces in order to benefit citizens (e.g. the FDA approving new food products).
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by jdpigeon 8y ago
You're doing God's work, man. Thank you for helping me avoid that headache. I'm sticking with pip
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by jdpigeon 8y ago
Very cool to see you on Hacker News. I listened to your piece on Medium (great narrator btw) and loved it. It's started some lively conversations
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by jdpigeon 9y ago
Since the data is being encoded with a signal processing trick that is inaudible to human ears this could work in any song with 0-100hz frequencies, right? I was little disappointed when I didn't hear intense dialup-modem-like sounds e
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by jdpigeon 9y ago
I have been anxiously waiting for something like this! Very excited to try it out. How does it handle data storage? Could we use CometML to store our continuously growing set of labeled data or is there a smart way to link it to Google Clou
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by jdpigeon 9y ago
I've been thinking about different situations in which Redux could be replaced with the new Context. Id sure appreciate having to write less boilerplate. The biggest concern I always get stuck on is where I'll put all my app'
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by jdpigeon 9y ago
Funny enough, when Mars One launched I happened to be at a conference that was sharing a venue with another conference on Mars planetology. It was great because of all the conversations it allowed us to start. However, I think about half th
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by jdpigeon 9y ago
Lucky. My bouldering 'career' left me with a lingering case of tendonitis in my elbow and kickstarted my mousing RSI issues. Make sure you're doing your preventative exercises!
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by jdpigeon 9y ago
The fact that Donald Trump is the President of the United States should be evidence enough that democracy is in serious danger.
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by jdpigeon 9y ago
Would you recommend Plotly for real-time charts that update visually around 60fps? At work we wrote wrote ours in pure D3, but it was as pain in the ass
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by jdpigeon 9y ago
Same here. I grew up in Seattle and thought that was bad, but the number of downcast and desperate characters I saw in downtown SF and how closely they were pressed up against areas of impressive wealth (like at Mission & 16th) was extr
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by jdpigeon 9y ago
You're saying you make ~200k/year 2 years out of college? That is not normal.
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by jdpigeon 9y ago
'If drivers are fully able to capitalize on these losses for tax purposes, 73.5% of an estimated U.S. market $4.8B in annual ride-hailing driver profit is untaxed," they add.' So they might be making money, but only by avoidi
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by jdpigeon 9y ago
Cool project. BTW, is this line by line `x = Something()(x)` style of writing code common in Tensorflow?
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by jdpigeon 9y ago
This makes me feel better about my own lost opportunity
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by jdpigeon 9y ago
In addition to being an incredibly productive, paradigm-shifting scientist, Dr. Barres was also honest and down to earth about the realities of the field. I'd recommend anyone going in to any type of graduate study to read his essay o

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